{"id":4201,"date":"2026-11-11T13:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:03:47","slug":"78-of-britons-see-israel-as-serious-threat-to-world-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4201","title":{"rendered":"78% of Britons see Israel as serious threat to world peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A growing majority of Britons consider Israel a serious threat to world peace, with 78% expressing this view, up significantly from 48% in 2005, according to a new survey published by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The findings, featured in NatCen\u2019s British Social Attitudes report titled \u201c<em>A More Dangerous World: British Attitudes to Security, Defence and International Alliances<\/em>,\u201d place Israel ahead of Iran and the United States in public perceptions of threats to global peace.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 75% of respondents identified Iran as a serious threat, while 74% said the same about the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The report maintained that Israel\u2019s growing negative image among the British public is partly linked to its involvement in recent conflicts across the Middle East, particularly its devastating war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>By autumn 2024, the share of Britons who considered Israel a serious threat to world peace had risen to 73%, amid widespread destruction in Gaza caused by the Israeli military offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Although public concern appeared to ease somewhat in 2025, with the figure dropping to around two-thirds, it rose again to 78% in a spring 2026 survey conducted after the US-Israeli military strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found clear differences in opinion among supporters of different political parties.<\/p>\n<p>Green Party supporters were the most likely to regard Israel as a serious threat, at 88%, followed by Labour supporters at 84%.<\/p>\n<p>Among other political groups, 79% of Liberal Democrat supporters, 70% of Conservative supporters and 62% of Reform UK supporters shared the assessment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing majority of Britons consider Israel a serious threat to world peace, with 78% expressing this view, up significantly from 48% in 2005, according to a new survey published by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). The findings, featured in NatCen\u2019s British Social Attitudes report titled \u201cA More Dangerous World: British Attitudes to Security, Defence and International Alliances,\u201d place Israel ahead of Iran and the United States in public perceptions of threats to global peace. According to the report, 75% of respondents identified Iran as a serious threat,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}